May 07, 2014

Saudi Arabia: Faqih ready to fire more health directors

In the context of dealing with the challenge of "Corona", "Al-Watan" informed sources, the health minister-designate Adel Al-Faqih discussed yesterday during a meeting with leaders health in the Mecca of the need to change the leadership of other medical conditions, in addition to those which have been exempted.

I realize "exempted" is a translation artifact for "fired," but it has a pleasant euphemistic quality, as when failing generals are "relieved of their duties." As Dr. Sam Johnson might have put it: "Depend upon it sir, when a man knows he is to be exempted in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."

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In the context of dealing with the challenge of "Corona", "Al-Watan" informed sources, the health minister-designate Adel Al-Faqih discussed yesterday during a meeting with leaders health in the Mecca of the need to change the leadership of other medical conditions, in addition to those which have been exempted.

I realize "exempted" is a translation artifact for "fired," but it has a pleasant euphemistic quality, as when failing generals are "relieved of their duties." As Dr. Sam Johnson might have put it: "Depend upon it sir, when a man knows he is to be exempted in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."